Wire fence.



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F, 0. BIESEMEIER.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24.1905.

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FRED o. BIESEMEIER, OF STERLING. NEBRASKA.

WIRE FE NCE- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application filed June 24, 1905. Serial No. 266,802.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED O. BIESEMEIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sterling, in the county of Johnson and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improyements in Wire Fences, of which the folowing 1s a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in wire fences, and particularly to a method for connecting the usual stay and strand wires.

The main object of the invention is the production of a stay-wire arranged to be peculiarly coiled around the strand-wires and subjected to a ulling strain to interlock the stay and strand wires.

he preferred form of the invention will be described in the following specification, refer encebeing had to the accompanying draw- Fi'gure 1 is a view in elevation of a fencee showing two stay-wires, one of which is in initial colling position and the-other in completed position. Fig.2 is a similar view showing another form .of stay-wire. Fig. 3 is a View in elevation of one of the preferred forms of stay-wire.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the strand-wires suitably supported from posts 2. The stay-wires 3 are referably coiled in manufacture about as i ustrated in Fig. 3,

. and in assembling said stay-Wires with the strand-wires the latter are positioned to arrange the already-formed coil about the strand-wire, so that a portion of said coil, as 4, lies over the top of the strand-wire, a portion 5 extends in front of and beneath the strand-wire, as at 6, the ortions 7 of the stay-wire intermediate of t e coils projecting approximately at an incline from one strandwire to the next. 1

While-I prefer to form the stay-Wires in suitably-arranged coils before their connection with the strand-wires, I also contemplate the connection of said stay and strand wires by coiling the former about the latter during and at the'time of their connection, each stay-wire being independently coiled about the successive strand-wires, as illustrated, by the manual manipulation of the stay-wire at the time of its connection.

Either of the above-described operations providesan elongated single coil of the staywire about each strand-wire, the terminals of the coil projecting on the same side of the strand-wire.

l The ends of the staly-wire which project beyond the fence-pane are then sub ected to a pulling strain to interlock the stay and.

strand wires. This operation causes the terminals of each coil of the stay-wire to approach each other, and as the terminals are arranged on the same sideof the strand-wire the strand-wire intermediate the terminals will be bent or distorted, as at 8, the projection of which bend will of course be about equal to the diameter of the stay-wlre, as shown. This operation locks the stay and strand Wires in a simple but effective manner to maintain the when in place.

The terminals of the stay-wires are, by preference, coiled about the upper and lower strand-wires, as at 9, to furt finish the panel.

While I refer that the wire should be 1mtially coiled aboutthe strand-wires, as shown in Fig. 1, still, if desired, they may be formed as illustrated at 8 in Fig. 2, in which construction the vertical portions of the stay-wires are offset or in different vertical planes, being projected on the same side of the strandwires, withtheir connecting portion extending in rear and partially encircling sald strand-wires. In this construction I prefer to arrange said connecting portions alternately on the opposite sides of the strand- Wire, thoughit 1s to be understood that in this arrangement the connecting portions are equally applicable and may be used with the coil-stay.

Having thus. described the invention, what is claimed as new isposition of the stay-Wire or secure and t The herein-described method of fence construction consisting in loosely coiling the stay-wires about the strand-wires in succession, and subjecting the ends of the stay-w1re to strain in opposite directions and thereby tightening the coils of the stay-Wires and forming an interlocking bend in the strandwiries at the point of engagement with the 001 s. 1

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRED c. BIESEMEIER.

Witnesses:

FRED UNVERZAGT, W. CAMPBELL. 

